NOTE: I can place only two of the quotations in Rilke’s work, but here in any case are the Englished German lines.

l. 19-20: “Only a few small films.”
ll. 26-27, from Rilke’s poem “Herbsttag” (“Autumn Day”): “Who has no house now / will not build one.”
l. 41: “Maybe later on.”
l. 55, from Rilke’s poem “Herbsttag” (“Autumn Day”): “Lord: it is time.”

Nicky Beer is the author of the poetry collection The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2010). She has received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a scholarship and a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Campbell Corner Prize, and a Discovery/The Nation Award. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Denver.

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Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2018, has published 17 books, including a translation of flash fictions by Mexican author Miguel Lupián, and co-edited two anthologies. He lives in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. He teaches at the University of Denver's University College, where he currently directs two programs: Arts & Culture and Global Affairs.